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Title: Wanna make your own Chip Samples? Use vChip!
Post by: Saga Musix on June 12, 2006, 21:51:24: Hey everbody!

i've programmed a little and nice tool in the past few weeks with which you can create cool chip-like samples (up to 800 samples long :) )
you can downlaod it at http://sagagames.de/download.php?file=vchip (http://sagagames.de/download.php?file=vchip). there's more information at http://sagagames.de/?programm=vchip, but that site is unfortunately on german. but my proggy is in english, don't panic :)

have phun!
Title: Wanna make your own Chip Samples? Use vChip!
Post by: Saga Musix on June 16, 2006, 22:25:46: well, does nobody want to do a little test / review / whatever? :???:
Title: Wanna make your own Chip Samples? Use vChip!
Post by: Ceekayed on June 16, 2006, 23:54:00: Well, it's a nice little tool, but making pure chip sounds is so easy with any software that a separate program for the task feels rather useless... Yet, after some fooling with the program I got so cool sound outta it that I actually exported it and am going to use it. :)

A nice tool, yet the interface was a bit confusing first.

Edit:

Here (http://kotinetti.suomi.net/sampo.narhi/demo.it) is a little demo I made using the nice sample (and filters). 22kb.
Modplug overdoes the sample vibrato again. Bleh.
Title: Wanna make your own Chip Samples? Use vChip!
Post by: Saga Musix on June 18, 2006, 00:16:07: hey, it's really nice :) i know that tehre are a few programs out... but i wanted to do an own programm again :D
Title: Wanna make your own Chip Samples? Use vChip!
Post by: zovik on June 22, 2006, 23:55:24: Holy crap, this is awesome!!!
Title: Wanna make your own Chip Samples? Use vChip!
Post by: Saga Musix on June 23, 2006, 20:45:51: hehe, thanks :) and be aware of the "DJ mixer" with which you can play to music with your own chip sample (will use a sort of keyboard interface and the glorious frequency slider ^^)
Title: OT: vchip
Post by: agent220 on July 02, 2006, 02:38:01: Quote from: "Jojo"
i don't think he means "Made WITH FL studio" ;)
he "made it using FL studio" for teh samples ;)

JOJO! I saw one of your recent posts about vchip and I messed around with it this morning. Great program btw! I'm kind of new to the chip scene, but after playing around with it this morning I was able to created some great sounds. I like how the program helps draw sines and saws for you because I suck at drawing witha mouse freehand :oops:
Anyway, I went to your site and downloaded all your samples you have up. Now all I have to do is create something of quality lol
Title: Wanna make your own Chip Samples? Use vChip!
Post by: m0d on July 02, 2006, 22:08:38: robot: Please don't thread crap in other peoples threads. It's rude.
Merged with the vchip thread. OT posts removed.
There, tidy again. :thumbup:
Title: Wanna make your own Chip Samples? Use vChip!
Post by: Eagle on July 17, 2006, 11:50:02: If I have anything to suggest about vChip, that would be to turn off the sample playback on default. I had a little too high a volume when I started vChip and then got :shock:

Otherwise, it is a practical and semi-nice little tool for chips. Though, I prefer using other methods to make chip samples (using ModPlug Trackers sample editor and manipulating wave values with a hex editor).
Title: Wanna make your own Chip Samples? Use vChip!
Post by: Saga Musix on July 18, 2006, 20:47:54: oh yes, i wanted to turn off the volume on default, but i always forgot it. but now, i think, i need someone who can "translate" C code for me, coz i can't get the recording function (it should be used by the planned "DJ MODE") working... :thumbneutral:
Title: Wanna make your own Chip Samples? Use vChip!
Post by: Eagle on July 18, 2006, 22:44:30: I may be able to help you out to translate it (to pseudo-code, I don't program in Visual Basic - too unflexible and "microsofty" for my taste). Just send me the code to my e-mail (which you will find in my profile) and I'll see what I can do.
Title: Wanna make your own Chip Samples? Use vChip!
Post by: Saga Musix on July 18, 2006, 23:06:53: actually, it was written in freeBasic (no micro-stuff :grinno: ).... i'll accept your help, of course ;)
Title: Wanna make your own Chip Samples? Use vChip!
Post by: Eagle on July 19, 2006, 10:22:31: Oh, FreeBasic. Now, that sounds a bit better. I've got chipmunks Basic for Mac and the good old GWBASIC that came with MS-DOS one heck of a long time ago. I don't use them very often, though, except from when I have decided to make some PC Speaker (beeps from the cpu) loop or melody. Can be quite fun sometimes.

Ops, I got :ot:!
Title: Wanna make your own Chip Samples? Use vChip!
Post by: Saga Musix on July 19, 2006, 23:20:24: hehe, the gwbasic PLAY command isn't any more in freeBasic... but there are some work-arounds... but yes, thats off-topic...
Title: Wanna make your own Chip Samples? Use vChip!
Post by: am-fm on March 05, 2007, 00:58:42: this generator rocks!!!!! :)
Title: Wanna make your own Chip Samples? Use vChip!
Post by: Saga Musix on March 05, 2007, 19:40:34: Thank you, I hope you'll have fun with this lil proggy ;) At the moment, I don't have much time to do any coding but if I find the time I will add some new cool features soon. Things I am currently planning:
- A DJ mode which can be used to play your chips LIVE to a tune of your choice. It will use the already known freq slider and a 2 octaves part of a piano.
- The file format allready supports it, but the editor doesn't know how to handle it: multiple waveforms in one file. if there *are* different waveforms in one fill, the first will be loaded at the moment.
Title: Wanna make your own Chip Samples? Use vChip!
Post by: jobro on June 14, 2007, 04:31:57: This is such a simple tool and yet so powerful. Thanks alot for it.